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Courtesy Don Dinehart By Laura Dinehart, Special to CNN

Editor?s Note:? Laura Dinehart is an assistant professor of early childhood education at Florida International University. Her research focuses on the development and early academic outcomes of children from birth to 5 years of age.

As a researcher in the field of early childhood education, I relish the idea of uncovering how factors in early childhood related to children, families, and schools, connect to children?s academic achievement once they enter school. As a parent, I often find it exasperating.

Take for example our recent findings of a study that looked at over 3,000 preschoolers in the state ofFlorida. We found that preschoolers? early writing skills ? their ability to copy letters, shapes, and numbers ? significantly predicted both their grades and standardized test scores in second grade reading and math. As a researcher, this finding was important! Public schools all over the country are dropping handwriting from their curriculum and technology has taken over the need to write anything with pencil and paper. And while newspapers and media outlets highlight this work, parents all over the country are wondering, ?Is this one more thing I have to work on with my child??

As a parent of three young children, I get it. Parents spend time reading, counting, playing outside, doing puzzles, doing extracurricular activities, and finishing homework ? now the handwriting too? Do our findings mean that kids with poor writing skills in preschool are doomed to fail? Of course not! In fact, every time I talk about these results, someone inevitably says, ?I had horrible handwriting when I was a kid and I did really well in school.? At this point, our study has prompted fewer answers and more questions. Do the findings overwhelmingly demonstrate that teaching handwriting in preschool will result in an improvement in academic skills in the later years? I'm not so sure, just yet. I am comfortable with the notion that early writing skills can serve at least as an indicator of later achievement.

So as researchers work to uncover the underlying mechanisms that link early writing skills to later academic achievement, should you work with your child (or students) on their writing? Sure! It?s important to note that occupational therapists who design handwriting curricula would argue that teaching handwriting is a very specific process. I?ll leave that to the experts for now. As parents, I suggest we provide children with as many opportunities to engage with writing tools as possible. Don?t deny them writing experiences because: (a) you think your electronic device is more "fun" and/or educational or (b) you will have to invest in wall and carpet cleaner.

Here are some quick tips to provide kids with opportunities to write:

Make sure you have a lot of writing materials around your home.

Markers, pencils, pens, and crayons should be made easily accessible to your children, as well as coloring books, paper, composition books, journals, and/or notebooks. There are plenty of books out there that encourage children to draw, make shapes, and trace letters and numbers. Have a few of them available for them to use at their leisure.? Easels, with both dry erase markers and chalk, are often low cost purchases that encourage children to draw, write, and play (more on that below). Going outside? Take sidewalk chalk with you and draw some family pictures while practicing writing the names of each family member. Going to the zoo? Help your child make a list of the animals you think you?ll see and have them check them off as you go along. Keep in mind that spelling accuracy is not important here. It?s the act of ?writing? that is the target.

Use writing in play

Imaginary play also provides opportunities for children to write. Be creative!? Notice that doctors write in your medical file and write prescriptions (albeit with horrible penmanship?).? If your child is playing doctor with her dolls, give her a ?file? to write on and a pad to write ?prescriptions.? Waitresses take orders and you sign a bill every time you go to a restaurant. Serving breakfast? Have your children order from their ?menu? that they wrote and sign their ?bill.? Finally, what do kids like more than playing teacher? That easel you purchased is going to come in handy now!

Be a role model for your child

Do you write on paper anymore? Do you take all your notes, type up your grocery list, and send emails on your electronic device. Of course you do! Don?t think your four-year-old isn?t noticing. In fact, chances are he is picking up your old, battery-less cell phone (that has now become his toy) and is pretending to type up his grocery list as you head out the door. Be a role model - leave written notes around the house and write a recipe on an index card together. Write out your grocery list next week rather than typing it into your phone.? See if your four-year-old wants to make a list of his own just like you do.

And don't force them. Kids have different levels of interest and ability.? They'll come around.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Laura Dinehart.

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As church leaders turn up the volume on same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian Catholics find themselves wondering just where they stand in their church.

On a clear, windy Sunday in March 2010, Father William Breslin told his parishioners at Sacred Heart of Jesus in Boulder, Colorado why the parish school would not re-enroll a child of same-sex parents for the coming school year.

?I hate the fact that I had to make a choice between being loving and protecting the teachings of the church,? Breslin told Mass-goers. ?The lesbian couple is saying that their relationship is a good one that should be accepted by everyone; and the church cannot agree to that.? Breslin added that he saw ample love all around Boulder, but ?a scarcity of discipleship.?.?.?. I chose to protect the faith over doing what would have looked like the loving thing to do.?

In the pews, Shawn Reynolds, a gay parishioner, remembers that he shut down during the homily. He left at communion and hasn?t returned. ?Pastors are supposed to tend to the flock, not disperse them,? he says.

Incidents like this one lead some gay and lesbian Catholics to wonder if there?s a future for them in today?s Catholic Church. The past decade has brought a number of disappointments to these Catholics, who had hoped for greater acceptance and a greater emphasis on love.

They point to the U.S. bishops? 1997 document Always Our Children, comparing it to what has been understood as the harder line of a 2006 document, Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination. They find other evidence of the church?s harsh official position in the prohibition in 1987 of DignityUSA (the oldest advocacy organization for gay and lesbian Catholics) from meeting on church property and the 2006 Vatican decision that gay men called to the priesthood would face greater barriers.

Arthur Fitzmaurice, who has been active in gay ministry in the Los Angeles area and is on the board of the Catholic Association for Lesbian and Gay Ministry (CALGM), sees the messages from the bishops as unbalanced and unhelpful. ?Being gay has been a gift from God,? he says. ?Neither they nor I can put down what God has given me. But the bishops? silence or negative rhetoric is driving people away.?

Opposite sides of the aisle

The gulf between the bishops and gay and lesbian Catholics plays out most starkly in the battle over same-sex marriage, the most prominent gay rights issue in the United States today.

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput has written that the church teaches that ?sexual intimacy by anyone outside marriage is wrong; that marriage is a sacramental covenant; and that marriage can only occur between a man and a woman. These beliefs are central to a Catholic understanding of human nature, family, and happiness, and the organization of society. The church cannot change these teachings because, in the faith of Catholics, they are the teachings of Jesus Christ.?

?Sexual intercourse is allowed between a husband and wife in marriage,? says Bishop William Skylstad, apostolic administrator of the Baker Diocese in Oregon. ?The rest of us are asked to be celibate. That teaching is not focusing on gay people, it?s everyone outside marriage. It?s been a long-standing teaching within the church.?

The church has in many states put itself in the political forefront against same-sex marriage. ?Marriage is now the front line in this particular battle of the culture war,? says Father James Livingston, a priest in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
But if this is a battle, the church is clearly going to need both better strategy and communications.
When Minnesota?s Catholic bishops sent out 400,000 anti-same-sex marriage DVDs to Catholics across the state in autumn 2010, coinciding with the campaign of a gubernatorial candidate opposed to same-sex marriage, the fellow lost to the candidate who was in favor of same-sex marriage rights.?

?It backfired,? says Benedictine Father Bob Pierson in Collegeville, Minnesota. ?It was seen as hurtful by a lot of people.?

Even Catholics who aren?t gay or lesbian are in profound disagreement with the hierarchy regarding the issue. A March 2011 report from the Public Religion Research Institute found Catholics to be more supportive of legal recognition of same-sex relationships than any other Christian denomination?more than the general public, even. In addition, 60 percent believe that same-sex couples should be allowed to adopt.

The report found Catholics to be more critical than other religious groups about how their church is handling the issue. Catholics are less likely to hear about homosexuality from the clergy, but when they do hear about it, more are likely to say the message was negative. And when same-sex marriage is defined as a ?civil union,? 71 percent of Catholics support it.

Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky doesn?t believe it. ?In states where people have voted, they?ve voted against it,? he says. ?That?s a truer poll.?

Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignityUSA, believes the polls. She says that since the 1990s polls have shown Catholics to be in the forefront of accepting GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) people. She points to three reasons: the social justice tradition in the church, the importance of family and community to Catholics, and the fact that Catholics are generally well educated. The higher a person?s education level, the more likely he or she is to be supportive.

Mixed messages

There is common ground between GLBT Catholics and the church. ?Every conversation should emphasize dignity,? says Kurtz, past chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops? Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage. The archbishop praises the USCCB?s Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination, which begins with general principles, the first of which is respecting human dignity, that (quoting from the Catechism) ?persons with a homosexual inclination must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity.?

However, that document also advises that a person?s revelation of any ?homosexual tendencies? should be confined to certain close friends, family members, a spiritual director, confessor, or members of a church support group. It also notes ?the homosexual inclination is objectively disordered, i.e., it is an inclination that predisposes one toward what is truly not good for the human person.?

That phrasing is less bleak than a 1986 Vatican letter, which stated that while homosexuality isn?t a sin, it is a ?strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil.? It is certainly less positive than Always Our Children, which ended with this concluding word ?to our homosexual brothers and sisters?: ?Though at times you may feel discouraged, hurt, or angry, do not walk away from your families, from the Christian community, from all those who love you. In you God?s love is revealed. You are always our children.?

Not all gay Catholics are disaffected. Gay Catholic blogger Steve Gershom (a pseudonym) believes that he travels in very different circles from gays and lesbians who are angry and hurt by the church?s teachings on homosexuality and same-sex marriage. He believes that part of the difference between himself and gay Catholic activists is that he doesn?t identify primarily as gay, in the way he identifies as Catholic, or as a man or human.

Gershom doesn?t believe that the gay lifestyle is compatible with Christianity, nor does he believe that church teaching will ever change. ?If you believe as I do, that the church is infallible, then it?s simply impossible to say that she can make a mistake in dogma and that she can change,? he says. Gershom?s blog attracts many gay readers who agree with him.

Other gay and lesbian Catholics are hurt by the church?s current message.
?We still have a ?don?t ask, don?t tell? policy in the church,? says a gay teacher at a Catholic high school?who, along with several other people and parishes, requested to remain anonymous for this story.

?There is a tension in the church?s teachings on homosexuality, between condemnation of homosexual acts, and the emphasis on the dignity of homosexual people,? says Frank DeBernardo, head of New Ways Ministry, another prominent gay-positive group for Catholics. (New Ways is also rejected by the bishops; its founders, Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent, were ordered by the Vatican to disassociate themselves from the group in 1999). ?It?s all going to come down to a question of emphasis. I fall on the side of believing that the dignity of all people, including gay people, is a more essential teaching than the teaching on sexual expression. But the bishops never emphasize that teaching.?

?Both are to be emphasized, the dignity and the Catholic vision for sexuality,? says Kurtz.

Gershom has heard the bishops emphasize both, but others have missed it. Fitzmaurice, for instance, faults the bishops for not taking advantage of teaching moments following several recent suicides of gay teens after being bullied over their sexual orientation. The bishops could have spoken out on bullying, says Fitzmaurice.

Kristen Hannum is a writer working from Denver and Portland, Oregon. She wrote for the Catholic Sentinel newspaper in Portland for 16 years. This article appeared in the March 2012 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 3, pages 12-17.)

Source: http://www.uscatholic.org/church/2012/01/pride-and-prejudice-uneasy-relationship-between-gays-and-lesbians-and-their-church

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Credit score raters may face new D.C. oversight

The new U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a proposal to regulate about 200 debt collectors and companies that produce credit reports as part of an effort to extend its oversight beyond the banking industry.

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Petsec shares up on Canada shale oil deal

Petsec Energy has expanded its focus from conventional oil and gas in the United States to shale oil in Canada, sending its shares to a more than five-month high.

Petsec shares closed up three cents, or 22.22 per cent, at 16.5 cents, its highest close since September 6 last year.

The company on Wednesday said it had agreed to earn a 24.5 per cent working interest in shale oil leases covering 70 square kilometres in Alberta's Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, that nation's largest hydrocarbon-producing province.

About 90 per cent of oil and gas produced in Canada comes from the area.

To earn the interest, Petsec will pay 35 per cent of the costs to drill one initial well and 35 per cent of the costs of drilling up to three further wells.

It will take until about mid-year to drill and evaluate the results of the first well before Petsec will decide whether to drill the additional wells.

"This is a significant step in the company's transition to securing and developing unconventional oil assets," chairman Terry Fern said in a statement.

"Success in the initial drilling is expected to result in the acquisition of further acreage within the play, which holds the potential for a sizeable shale oil project."

Petsec's key assets in the Gulf of Mexico have recently been hampered by technical woes, restrictions on a third party operated sales pipeline and lower gas prices in the US due to mild winter weather and strong competition from the booming shale gas sector.

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Civil Wars' Joy Williams pregnant with 1st child (AP)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ? Joy Williams of Grammy-nominated duo The Civil Wars says she is pregnant.

It's the first child for Williams and her husband-manager Nate Yetton. The baby is due in late June. The "Barton Hollow" singer made the announcement on Twitter and her publicist confirmed the news.

Williams and her singing partner John Paul White are up for two Grammys this weekend ? best folk album and best country duo/group performance. They also will perform at Sunday's awards show.

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Kodak moments are coming to an end

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By msnbc.com staff and wire

The company that invented home photography has tossed in the towel on it.

Eastman Kodak, the bankrupt inventor of the hand-held camera, plans to stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in the first half of 2012 in a bid to cut costs.

The move marks the end of an era for Kodak, which is seen as one of the biggest corporate casualties of the digital age, after it failed to quickly embrace modern technologies such as digital photography, a product that it also invented.

Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection last month. It said Thursday that its plan to stop making cameras and frames would mean ?significant? job losses at the business, which employs 400 people, mostly in Rochester, N.Y.

Kodak will take a charge of about $30 million to leave the business. It expects the exit to generate more than $100 million in annual operating savings. The charge does not include additional costs that Kodak expects to incur for items such ending manufacturing contracts with overseas companies that make its products.

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Palestinian prisoner on 55th day of hunger strike (AP)

JERUSALEM ? In a high-stakes gamble, an imprisoned member of a Palestinian militant group has waged a hunger strike for almost two months, trying to draw attention to Israel's military justice system and its treatment of detainees who can be held without charge for lengthy periods.

Khader Adnan, 33, has refused food for 55 days, making his hunger strike the longest ever waged by a Palestinian detainee. With his condition rapidly deteriorating, Israeli authorities, who consider him a terrorist, are nonetheless scrambling to keep him alive. His death could turn the previously obscure Adnan into a Palestinian hero and set off new violence.

Adnan, a member of the armed group Islamic Jihad, has lost 60 pounds (27 kilograms) and now weight just 130 pounds (60 kilograms). His skin is discolored, his hair has fallen out, he cannot walk, and he has been shackled to his bed, said lawyers and his wife Randa, who have seen him in a series of Israeli hospitals.

He is drinking water that is occasionally enhanced with electrolytes and vitamins he needs to keep him alive. His condition is considered severe.

The protest could not only cost Adnan his life but could also have political implications.

Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed militant group that has killed dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks, has vowed to punish Israel if Adnan dies. The group could fire rockets into Israel from its stronghold in the Gaza Strip, where it has recently built up a powerful arsenal of new weapons.

Adnan was a spokesman for Islamic Jihad in the West Bank. It isn't known if he directly participated in attacks on Israelis, and officials would not say what he is suspected of.

Adnan is being held under a policy known as "administrative detention," said his lawyer, Tamar Peleg-Sryck. The system allows Israel to hold suspected militants without charge based on secret information that is not shared with lawyers. It is generally used in cases deemed high-risk.

The decision to hold him was being appealed on Thursday in a special hearing at the hospital where he is being held, said another lawyer representing Adnan, Jawad Bolous.

He is being held under guard at the hospital, and prison spokespeople say they are watching his condition closely. An Israeli official, permitted to speak only on condition of anonymity, said Adnan agreed Wednesday to receive an infusion of fluids. His lawyers and relatives denied it.

Adnan is only allowing doctors from an Israeli rights group and the International Red Cross to check on his condition. Neither group would comment.

The case has generated widespread support in Palestinian society.

Small demonstrations in support of Adnan have been held in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in recent days. Followers exchange updates on Twitter, and Facebook users have changed their profile pictures to that of a bearded Adnan.

Adnan believes his imprisonment, and the events leading to his detention, have robbed him of his dignity, according to his wife and lawyers.

"My husband tells me, 'I am striking against humiliation,'" said Randa Adnan. "His determination is strong, even though he resembles a man who has stepped away from life."

Adnan began his hunger strike shortly after he was arrested in a raid on his home on Dec. 17 in the northern West Bank village of Arabeh.

Adnan claims soldiers made sexual innuendoes about his wife and mocked his Muslim faith. He also says Israeli agents beat him during interrogations, tied him in painful positions to a chair, ripped hair out of his beard and wiped dirt on his face. Israeli officials have not commented on those allegations.

He is also protesting his administrative detention.

Israeli military courts can order the detentions for up to six months and renew the orders indefinitely. Suspects have been held as long as three years at a time without charge, according to Israeli human rights groups.

Israel says the practice is necessary in cases of dangerous militants because airing the evidence would risk exposing its network of Palestinian informants. But critics say the system is open to abuse because it is not transparent.

Peleg-Sryck, the attorney, said there are currently 309 administrative detainees in Israeli jails. A prison spokeswoman was unable to immediately verify that number.

Israel's military justice system in the West Bank, set up after Israel captured the territory in the 1967 Mideast war, has come under scrutiny in unexpected quarters in recent weeks.

A film examining the system, "The Law in These Parts," by Raanan Alexandrowicz was awarded the best international documentary by the Sundance Film Festival jury in Utah this year.

Based on interviews with former military judges, it portrays the system as a tool to justify Israel's treatment of Palestinians. It showed how military judges, while supposed to be independent adjudicators, are faced with the problem of trying suspects considered their enemies.

About 95 percent of Palestinian suspects in 2010 were convicted of at least one charge against them, according to a military court report.

Administrative detention prisoners represent a tiny fraction of the estimated 4,200 Palestinians held by Israel. At any given moment, there are thousands of Palestinians in Israeli jails, doing time for charges ranging from throwing stones at Israeli soldiers to killing Israeli civilians.

Palestinian society venerates the prisoners, overlooking their crimes and viewing them as freedom fighters.

The second longest hunger strike in Palestinian history was by a woman who refused food for 43 days before she was released in 1997.

The late Mohandas K. Gandhi popularized the hunger strike as a protest tool during the Indian independence movement in the 1940s. Another famous case was that of Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army activist who along with nine other inmates starved to death in a 1981 hunger strike in a British prison.

In recent years, dissidents in Venezuela and Cuba have died of hunger strikes.

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Daniel Estrin in Jerusalem and Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah contributed to this report.

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Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed announces his resignation during a televised press conference.

By msnbc.com news services

Updated at 6:16 a.m. ET

MALE, Maldives -- President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives resigned on Tuesday after weeks of protests erupted into a police mutiny, leaving the man widely credited with bringing democracy to the paradise islands accused of being as dictatorial as his predecessor.

Nasheed handed power over the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mohammed Waheed Hassan, who previously worked as a top UNICEF official. He?was sworn in as the new Maldivian president in the afternoon.

Maldives, an Indian Ocean archipelago known for luxurious resorts for upmarket tourists, has a new democracy after being under autocratic rule for 30 years.?


"I resign because I am not a person who wishes to rule with the use of power,"?Nasheed said in a televised address. "I believe that if the government were to remain in power it would require the use of force which would harm many citizens.

"I resign because I believe that if the government continues to stay in power, it is very likely that we may face foreign influences."

It was not immediately clear to what influences he was referring. India helped foil a coup on the islands in 1988 by sending a battalion of soldiers to back the government.

A spokesman for India's Foreign Ministry, Syed Akbaruddin, said the rebellion was an internal matter of the Maldives "to be resolved by the Maldives."

In the morning, soldiers fired teargas at police and demonstrators who besieged the Maldives National Defence Force headquarters in Republic Square.

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A police officer, in blue, charges soldiers during a clash in Male on Tuesday.

Reuters reported that?mutinying police took over the state broadcaster and broadcast an opposition-linked station's calls for people to come on the streets to overthrow Nasheed.

Nasheed, a former pro-democracy political prisoner, campaigned successfully for democratic reforms and was elected to office in 2008 in the country's first multiparty election. He spoke out passionately on the dangers of climate change to the low-lying islands.

The violence on the Indian Ocean archipelago best-known as a beach getaway is the worst in a struggle between Nasheed, widely credited with ushering in full democracy to the archipelago, and former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, whose 30-year rule was widely seen as autocratic.

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Protests began weeks ago after Nasheed ordered the military to arrest the top criminal court judge, whom he accuses of being in the pocket of the former president.

That set off a constitutional crisis that has Nasheed in the unaccustomed position of defending himself of acting like a dictator.

Gayoom's opposition Progressive Party of the Maldives accused the military of firing rubber bullets at protesters and a party spokesman, Mohamed Hussain "Mundhu" Shareef, said "loads of people" were injured. He gave no specifics.

An official close to Nasheed denied the government had used rubber bullets, but confirmed that about three dozen police officers defied orders overnight and smashed up the main rallying point of the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party.

"This follows Gayoom's party calling for the overthrow of the Maldives' first democratically elected government and for citizens to launch jihad against the president," said the official.

The protests, and the scramble for position ahead of next year's presidential election, have seen parties adopting hardline Islamist rhetoric and accusing Nasheed of being anti-Islamic.

On Twitter, opposition-linked groups or individuals have called for Nasheed's impeachment and, in at least one case, beheading under Shariah law.

The trouble has also shown the longstanding rivalry between Gayoom and Nasheed, who was jailed for a combined six years after being arrested 27 times by Gayoom's government while agitating for democracy.

The trouble has been largely invisible to the 900,000 or so well-heeled tourists who come very year to visit desert islands swathed in aquamarine seas, ringed by beaches of icing-sugar sands, would get a hint of that.

'Potentially a tropical Afghanistan'
Most tourists are whisked straight to their island hideaway by seaplane or speedboat, where they are free to drink alcohol and get luxurious spa treatments, insulated from the everyday Maldives, a fully Islamic state where alcohol is outlawed and skimpy beachwear frowned upon.

Maldivian intelligence officers and Western officials say hardline Salafist and Wahabist groups are gaining political ground in the more distant atolls and making a beachhead in Male.

The capital island is home to almost 200,000 of the Maldives' 330,000 people, all Sunni Muslims. It is also home to the majority of the estimated 30,000 people on the islands who are addicted to heroin, according to U.N. estimates.

"It's potentially a tropical Afghanistan. The same forces that gave rise to the Taliban are there -- the drugs, the corruption and the behavior of the political class," a Colombo-based Western ambassador who is responsible for the Maldives told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Source: http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/07/10337283-trouble-in-paradise-maldives-president-quits-after-protests

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